Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01
BY FAITH.
Instances Recorded of Cures Effected by
Faith.


New York World.
A young man named Conover, living
near Parkersburg, W. Va, had a severe
attack Of the measles. His grandmother,
anxious to effect speedy cure, placed
him between two ticks of feathers with
hot stones at his feet and live sheep be-
side him. The cure was so effective that
the youth died few hours atterward.
Mrs. Herman of Kokomo, Ind. who had
been paralyZed for several years, became
interested in q series of revival meetings,
Snd induced her son to carry her to the
church in which they were conducted.
While she was there the congregation
prayed for her, and, to the great surprise
of all, she arose and walked from her seat
to the pulpit. She is now said to be able
to walk as we'll as she ever could.
Mrs. Louise Scribner, an advocate OF
the Christian science of faith healing, is
said to have effected some remarka bic
cures in different parts of Missouri. The
most noteworthy case is that of James
Donovan, an aged resident of Missouri
City. Infamstory rhumatism has kept
him in bed for more than a score of
years, but he is now as active as q man
of forty. Mrs. SCribner cures her
patients by simply reading the Bible to
them and praying for their recovery.
r. w. Prendergast, a Well-knOwn meT-
chant of Bellevue, KY, was given up by
his physicians a month ago, and left to
die. He had been afflicted with an up-
known disease winch bR filed their keen
est diagnosis, and the medicine admins
tered to him seemed to make his con-
dItiOn worse. After the physicians had
left him three ladies went to his bedside
and prayed that he might be healed. The
sick man grew better st once, the visits
and prayers were continued with inCreas-
ing success, and to-day be is well. Be-
fore his recovery Mr.. Prendergast had
not been inside of a church for fifteen
years, but he is now regular attendant.
Father BOudard, the priest in charge of
the Convent of the Ursuliue Nuns, in New
Orleans, has caused considerable agita-
ton among the Creole portion of the city
by his reported miraculous cures. 1t is
reported that several women who had lost
confidence in the ability of their physi-
clans to cure their ailments, applied to the
reverend father and were directed to OBJ
serve q course of religious meditation and
prayer This was followed by the appli-
cation OF certain miraculous water at
the hands of the priest, who at the same
time made passes with holy relic. The
treatment is said to have been efficaciOus
in number of instances, and because Of
the great excitement created thereby the
archbishop mas ordered Father BOudard
10 cease his healing practices.
a remarkable instance of an Iuvalid's
recovery through faith is. reported from
Preble county, Ohio. Miss Sarah FoubIe,
the daughter of a respectable farmer liV-
ing Just out of Sonora, had been bedrld-
den for thiIty-one years because of an Rf-
lection of the spine, and for nearly year
she had been speechless and blind. She
is now entirely cured. Miss Fouble says
that about the middle of March she went
into trance, during which an angel ap-
peared to her and babe her pray for her
recovery. On awaking from the trance
she prayed long and earnestly and fell
quietly asleep. In the morning she walked
down to breakfast, to the great astOnish-
menu of the family, and has not known
day of illness Stree. Sle now spends the
greater part of her time in singing and
praying.
MS. John Buchanan of Waco, Mo,
relates in the Religio-PhilOsophi Jour
nal how the spirits cured her tifteen-year-
old daughter of a terrible attack of
malarial fever. The child lay in bed
for three months, suffering terribly, and
was finally given up by the physician,
who said that in the improbable event of
her recovery she would be a cripple for
life in her back and lower limbs. The
mother in her anguish prayed to heaven
for guidance, and the voice of q spirit
responded with instructions for treating
the sufferer. Mrs. Buchanan followed
the instructions implicitly, with the graft
flying result that, to use her own words,
"In three days my daughtec could turn
herself in bed, and in two more days she
could stand on her feet with little
assistance, and now she is well, and is
married and has sweet little boy"